This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

We must strive to be like the moon

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

The human heart isn't meant to be caged by someone who doesn't feed it.

Suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth.

Seize opportunity by the beard for it is bald behind.

When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.

Planning involves considering how other people may use something.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.